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Reviews on iOS
by Moiz Syed 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

This is a good app to keep tabs on app reviews on iOS. http://reviewsapp.io/

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iOS Wikipedia app beta 4.01 beta 10
by Monte Hurd 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Today's beta includes the following newness: - Fix for table of contents sometimes causing the article to jump around erratically when selecting a section near the bottom of an article. This fix incidentally made the TOC animation much more smooth :) - Networking crash fix. - More responsive article touch event handling. - Fix for reference panel sometimes flickering to blank. - Better table of contents swipe gesture responsiveness. - Slight increase in size of Nearby item distance label for better readability. If you haven't already signed up to the beta program you can do so here: http://tflig.ht/1dhqz8j Feel free to share this link too!

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Wikipedia Android app Automated builds
by Yuvi Panda 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hello everyone! Automated builds of the Wikipedia app are now available at http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikipedia-android-builds/ That is a nice little (and barebones) page that simply shows the last time the app was updated, and also offers a download link. You can click 'download' and then install the apk that is received. The app downloaded from this page can also be installed side by side with the normal and beta apps from the Google Play store, so you can have all three! :) Thanks to Dmitry and Bearnd for helping with this. Coming soon: A small app that'll keep checking for updates and nag you if there are any... -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog

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Playground - Best Android Apps 2014
by Vibha Bamba 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

http://time.com/2946631/best-android-apps-2014/ I'm playing with some of these now a days. Dmitry/ Bernd - Please do play with these if you have some time. Specifically good ones are - Google keep (swipe away notes is nice) Open table (Background lead Image loading is interesting, clean typography) Circa News (Clean Layout, nice visual details on the right slider) Photo Editor By Aviary (Strong workflow right from download) ---- Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design

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Android Beta release
by Dmitry Brant 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

This week's Beta release of the Android app [1] incorporates the following new features and updates: - Rolled up "page issues" boxes into a link that shows them as a popup dialog. - Rolled up disambiguation links into a single link that shows them as a popup list. - Frequently-used languages are now kept at the top of the list, for easier selection. - Improved performance of search auto-completion. - Improved page loading speed and data usage by using compression in network requests. - Using updated versions of Android support libraries Enjoy! (btw, the Beta app now has just shy of 100K active users!) [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta -Dmitry

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opensearch vs. prefixsearch
by Dmitry Brant 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

I was just looking at the Mobile Web search functionality, and I noticed that the drop-down list of search results in Mobile Web is different from the list in our native apps for the same search term. It looks like Mobile Web uses prefixsearch, whereas the apps are using opensearch. I'm curious what was the rationale for using a different API in the apps? (Wouldn't we want the search results to be consistent between the Apps and Mobile Web?) -Dmitry

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Latest Android test build
by Dmitry Brant 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Hi all, Here is a build that contains the latest (final?) iteration of the page issues / disambiguation verbiage, as well as the latest full-text search design! https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/scratch/wikipedia-2… -Dmitry

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[Mobile web] Notes from user testing 1st mobile Wikidata game prototype at Wikimania
by Maryana Pinchuk 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

During Wikimania, me + Kaldari + Sherah did some in-person testing of a prototype mobile Wikidata game that Sherah built during the hackathon.[1] I've finally transcribed the notes from the testing sessions & thought it might be useful/interesting for folks to read through the summary and raw notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research/Guerilla_testing_Wikigrok. The tl;dr is that we've definitely got some iterating to do on the UX and copy to make this a better, more understandable, less intimidating experience for less experienced/non-Wikipedian users – but it was great to get that feedback early on so we can act on it before writing any of the live code :) Lemme know if you have any questions – and Kaldari + Sherah, feel free to add anything you remember from the testing :) 1. Check it out for yourself on a phone or iOS emulator: http://wikigrok -proto.meteor.com/ -- Maryana Pinchuk Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] need for an app?
by svetlana 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, at 10:54, Daniel Friesen wrote: > On 2014-08-16, 4:56 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:40 AM, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote: > >> Why not use in-browser offline storage? > >> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/storage > > One of my favorite articles: > > http://alistapart.com/article/application-cache-is-a-douchebag > > On 2014-08-16, 5:15 PM, svetlana wrote: > > ... > > That is OK, you and Yuvi Panda highlighted some important points. > > Thanks to both - I'll follow-up if I find solution to the application cache issues raised in the blog post linked earlier. > > > > svetlana > > Issues? The article is one of my favourites too, if you read through the > whole thing it describes a technique of combining appcache, > localStorage, and an iframe to make it possible for a site like > Wikipedia to be made to work offline. And localStorage could even be > substituted for IndexedDB (with a polyfill for WebSQL only browsers). > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > Could someone please tell me why I'm getting two different threads with this subject in my inbox? I have trouble following. Thought that your point is that offline storage in browser is hard, and that's /why/ mobile apps exist. It's really hard to discuss this by email. svetlana

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Fwd: user testing VE on mobile
by Kaity Hammerstein 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

We did another round of guerrilla testing for VE on mobile today. Overall it was much improved from the last tests! Especially these changes: X icon to back icon, arrow icon to word "next", save page updates, and the switch between edit modes. Here are those findings: - Used back button and it did what they expected - Hesitated when asked to save but all were able to find "Next" button - Filled out the save screen appropriately, although 1 person said it looked like an error screen at first - When asked to switch to wikitext, tapped gear icon almost immediately, but several people still struggled with "edit" and "edit source" language. Everyone also struggled with the pop-up asking them to save before switching. But the link and reference context bars really failed the user tests. :( Most did not notice that the icon in the toolbar was highlighted. Nobody even noticed the context bars, and didn't know what they meant when I pointed to them. More notes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research/VE_on_mobile#July_30.2C_2014… I would suggest we try adding blue links that say "edit link" and "edit citation" in those context bars, to show a user what they'll be doing specifically. The taller height will also make the bar more noticeable. Then we can test again! Thanks, Kaity

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